Schools also need funding
for additional school counselors and training for teachers and school leaders in social and emotional development and trauma - sensitive practices.
The union used the election to air contract demands that included limits to class sizes, increases in teacher preparation time, a reduction of paperwork mandates and
additional school counselors and nurses.
Now, Palacios is a second - grade bilingual teacher at New Highland Academy, an Oakland, California, elementary school that has pioneered education reform through the state's Quality Education Investment Act (QEIA), a $ 3 billion investment that brought smaller classes and
additional school counselors.